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The State of Play in Iowa: What to Know About the G.O.P. Presidential Caucuses
Donald Trump leads the polls by more than 30 points.
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Biden Is Trying to Jolt Us Out of Learned Helplessness About Trump
After Joe Biden’s speech on Friday marking the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection and laying out the democratic stakes…
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What if Joe Biden Is Actually Right About 2024?
“What a sick … My God.” President Biden offered many eloquent turns of phrase on the importance and the fragility…
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A Novel of the Spanish Conquest, Magic Mushrooms Included
Álvaro Enrigue’s “You Dreamed of Empires” is a hallucinatory tale of the conquistadors’ arrival at Moctezuma’s gates.
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She Helped the Lillys Blossom. Now She’ll Champion Her Own Work.
After years of fighting to win parity and recognition for women in theater, Julia Jordan said: “Everybody gets produced now.…
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In ‘Beautyland,’ an Awkward Alien Reports From Earth by Fax Machine
In Marie-Helene Bertino’s remarkable funny-sad novel, the young visitor and her mother find the means to persevere in the aisles…
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New York’s Leadership Is Faltering at a Key Moment
David Firestone: Hi, Mara, and welcome to a year that’s going to be full of news about Mayor Eric Adams…
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Lily Gladstone Won’t Let Hollywood Put Her in a Box
In college, Lily Gladstone studied the history of Native American actors in Hollywood. Now, she’s making it. The 37-year-old actress…
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Politics
Trump Doesn’t Actually Speak for the Silent Majority
I can’t fit everything that I think into a single piece, especially when I’m writing on deadline. My column this…
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Is Trump an Agent or an Accident of History?
In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels, a “psychohistorian” in a far-flung galactic empire figures out a way to predict the future…